“The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge, while an ordinary… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
I think of the self-actualizing man not as an ordinary man with something added, but rather as the ordinary man with nothing… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
“...he wondered if maybe just occasionally the gods designed a woman fit for a king or a prince and then gave her… — Ellen O'Connell Copy Share Image
When it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“What value can one ordinary man have in a magical world? What can a mortal bring to the affairs of immortals? Insight.… — Simon R. Green Copy Share Image
There seems no intrinsic reason why everyone shouldn't be (self-actualising). Apparently every baby has possibilities for self-actualisation, but most get it knocked… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
“She wrapped her arms around him. "If you take away my wealth and my name, I'm nothing more than an ordinary woman… — Melissa Jagears Copy Share Image
I'm not close to him." He looked at me defiantly. "But he's put his whole life into this. He's no Freud or… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
“So, Zoe told me today that—” “Wait. Are you going to talk like that?” I glanced down and realized he was referring… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“him the ordinary man whose Buddhist spirituality often flickered, really just questing for inner silence with not too much of an outer… — Marie-Claire Blais Copy Share Image
“His thumb slid up from underneath her chin to along her jawline, then slowly down again to the tip of the chin.… — Jody Hedlund Copy Share Image
For the ordinary man, whose mind is a checkerboard of crisscrossing reflections, opinions, and prejudices, bare attention is virtually impossible; his life… — Philip Kapleau Copy Share Image
The greatest dread of ordinary man is death, with its rude imposition interrupting fortuitous plans and fondest attachments with an unknown and… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“You are outside life, you are above life, you have miseries which the ordinary man does not know, you exceed the normal… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Surrender your will to Him. Unconditionally. Withhold nothing. Turn it all over to Him; all of your desires, wishes, dreams and hopes.… — Lawrence E. Corbridge Copy Share Image
“The ordinary man thinks that yielding to doubts and worries is a sign of sensibility, of spirituality. Acting thus, he remains distant… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Smoking comforts ordinary men, but I'm not an ordinary man. There aren't many like me left. And it's a good thing for… — Charles Willeford Copy Share Image
An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality--same stuff, same make up, only more force. And the strong driving… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everything has two aspects; the current aspect, which we see nearly always and which ordinary men see, and the ghostly and metaphysical… — Giorgio de Chirico Copy Share Image
By my physical constitution I am but an ordinary man ... Yet some great events, some cutting expressions, some mean hypocracies, have… — John Adams Copy Share Image
It is rather astonishing how little practical value scientific knowledge has for ordinary men, how dull and commonplace such of it as… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“MOTHER. Is he mad, or a rascal? LADY. He's neither. He's no ordinary man; and it's a pity I can tell him… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Christ was an ordinary man who upon the attainment of absolute divinity or Nirvana or Samadhi became a better version of himself.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Till now I lived thinking that being a man was all about being strong. But that wasnt so. An ordinary man uses… — Arang And The Magistrate Copy Share Image
A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man.… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“An ordinary man would have been unable to maintain his balance there, to say nothing of holding on with such narrow support.… — Kendell Foster Crossen Copy Share Image
The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
I sometimes hear preachers speak of the sad condition of men who live without God in the world, but a scientist who… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
It is difficult, none the less, for the ordinary man to cast off orthodox beliefs, for he is seldom allowed to hear… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
What changed these very ordinary men (who were such cowards that they did not dare stand too near the cross in case… — John Bertram Phillips Copy Share Image
An ordinary man will work every day for a year at shoveling dirt to support his body, or a family of bodies;… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Lord Rodrik Harlaw was neither fat nor slim; neither tall nor short; neither ugly nor handsome. His hair was brown, as were… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“As he finally stopped fighting sleep, he wondered if maybe just occasionally the gods designed a woman fit for a king or… — Ellen O'Connell Copy Share Image
The philosophy which affects to teach us a contempt of money does not run very deep; for, indeed, it ought to be… — Henry Taylor Copy Share Image
We need to remember that the first disciples were ordinary men called to an extraordinary mission. Their devotion to Jesus outweighed- by… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves… — William Osler Copy Share Image
“This is something an ordinary man can never know. You will enter the House of Dreams, Juanito, where you will live forever.… — Barry Gifford Copy Share Image
